Off late there has been a lot of debate on the opening up of new IITs. It has been suggested by some that they would dilute the ‘brand value’ of the IITs and that the quality of the new IITs is nowhere near to what IITs should be. Others point out that the newly set […]

The Ministry of HRD recently announced a new framework for ranking higher education institutions in India, since many Indian institutes don’t rank too well in international rankings. The idea is to generate a set of ranking parameters which are localized and country specific, unlike the global parameters that other ranking organizations use. The Wall Street […]

Summer of 2014. Ten of the most precious and enjoyable weeks of my life. Two and a half months that changed me from an average guy, with little experience in public transport and habituated to the comfort of air-conditioned rooms and cars, to someone who can get by on his own in a completely alien […]

Strategies & Mistakes on CAT Preparation :   Every management aspirant dreams of getting 99 percentile in CAT, one of the most coveted management exams in India. However, only a handful of people realizes this dream. Yogesh Mehra – 99.03%ile CAT 2014 Nagendra Rawat- 99.10%ile CAT 2014 What drives these people? What motivates them? What does it […]

IIT Madras is one of the few IITs that provide a high level of curriculum flexibility to the students in their academic programmes. The institute offers electives that make up 40% of their curriculum; the highest elective composition amongst those provided in all other IITs. Students have the option to choose their subjects spanning different […]

In applications of rotational motion one of the most important section is rolling motion and variety of problems are framed on rolling motion and its applications. Rolling motion problems are divided in two categories – Pure Rolling and Rolling with sliding. Majority of problems which are asked in pre engineering exams are based on pure […]

PET bottle filled with water and bleach, refracts sunlight to illuminate Did you ever think that the empty PET soft drink bottles you throw can actually brighten homes and light up people’s lives? Yes, you read that right.  A slum just behind IIT Delhi, Munirka, where even sunlight inside homes seems to be a luxury, […]

The RBSE proposal for an aptitude test has raised a lot of eyebrows among different players in the engineering education field. The first part of this series threw light on the dilemma of professors and students regarding the issue. In this part, we bring another important aspect into picture, namely – the coaching institutes in Rajasthan. Students […]

There are several situations of collisions in rigid body dynamics on which different problems are framed. In such cases we need to conserve angular momentum of the system about a point with respect to which the net external torque on the body is zero. The most important thing in such cases is to locate a […]

In a nation that’s jam packed with people, in a population of 120 crores, you see an engineer passing out in every nook and corner nowadays. Approximately 1.5 million engineers pass out every year in India. Then how can one expect each of them to turn out to be the next rising star of the […]